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drew24 · 02-12-2015, 11:53 PM

West Virginia is interesting this year.

They've missed the tourney 2 years in a row, but have been ranked pretty well all year after beating UConn in Puerto Rico back in November. Nice surprise after losing 44% of our scoring. I checked a few games ago and they have the highest defensive TO% since 2002. Teams are turning the ball over 30% of the time. I think it was the game against Oklahoma when the announcers kept comparing them to the Arkansas teams of about 20 years ago.

Unfortunately they have only beaten one likely at large bid team this year though and have a brutal end of season schedule in the Big 12 with all of our TCU and TTU (and K-State too I guess) games done already. Should have a tournament resume even if we go 2-7 in the last stretch here, but I'd rather go 3-6 or 4-5 so I'm not sweating on Selection Sunday (less than a month away).

02-12-2015, 11:53 PM	#2
drew24 Scoring Winger Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Calgary Exp:	West Virginia is interesting this year. They've missed the tourney 2 years in a row, but have been ranked pretty well all year after beating UConn in Puerto Rico back in November. Nice surprise after losing 44% of our scoring. I checked a few games ago and they have the highest defensive TO% since 2002. Teams are turning the ball over 30% of the time. I think it was the game against Oklahoma when the announcers kept comparing them to the Arkansas teams of about 20 years ago. Unfortunately they have only beaten one likely at large bid team this year though and have a brutal end of season schedule in the Big 12 with all of our TCU and TTU (and K-State too I guess) games done already. Should have a tournament resume even if we go 2-7 in the last stretch here, but I'd rather go 3-6 or 4-5 so I'm not sweating on Selection Sunday (less than a month away). Last edited by drew24; 02-25-2015 at 02:39 AM.